Copyright & Fair Use Town Meeting/Indianapolis/April 4

To the Copyright Community: I hope that many of you will be able to attend the program described below, which will be held on February 16 in NYC. I am pleased to announce that we are organizing the second such Town Meeting to be held in Indianapolis on Friday, April 4, 1997. That meeting will be an opportunity to examine the issues surrounding visual images as well as the questions of fair use under other circumstances addressed in the Confu report. I will forward a more complete announcement to this list soon, but if you would like to be sure to receive registration information, please send a request to me at "copyinfo[_at_]indiana.edu."

We will have a modest registration fee to cover lunch, refreshments, and materials. Seating is strictly limited, so you will want to be on the registration list soon. Although the formal program will be held on April 4, I will conduct a general discussion and overview of copyright and fair use in the late afternoon on April 3. Please let me know if you might be interested in attending that session as well.

Watch for more details soon!

Kenny Crews
Copyright Management Center
Indiana University
http://www.iupui.edu/it/copyinfo

On Tue, 4 Feb 1997, Christine Sundt wrote:
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> IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: (212) 691-1051
> February 4, 1997 Katie Hollander, ext.206
> Craig Houser, ext. 208
> Mary-Beth Shine, ext. 210
> nyoffice[_at_]collegeart.org
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> PRESS RELEASE
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> TOWN MEETING: FAIR USE OF DIGITAL IMAGES
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> THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART
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> SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1997, 9:30-4:30
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> Fair Use of Digital Images, the first in a series of town meetings
> co-sponsored by the College Art Association and the American Council of
> Learned Societies, will take place on Sunday, February 16, from 9:30 to
> 4:30 at Cooper Union's Great Hall, 1 Cooper Square. This first town
> meeting follows the 85th annual College Art Association conference at the
> New York Hilton, February 12-15, 1997.
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> What can artists, curators, librarians, and scholars do with digital
> images? Although technologies of digital networks open the door to many
> new possibilities, copyright law will also play a critical role in shaping
> what we can do. The purpose of this first town meeting is to allow wide
> discussion of what is "fair use" of digital images.
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> Digital networks pose many new challenges for copyright law. This is
> particularly so with regard to images, which may now be easily digitized
> and accessed from remote locations. Who will hold the rights? What will
> be "fair use" (a key concept in copyright law) of such images? Who will
> have to pay for what? This town meeting will explore these issues, putting
> a particular focus on guidelines recently drafted by the Conference on Fair
> Use (CONFU), which are proposed for wide endorsement by organizations and
> will have implications for all users, creators, and rights holders. In
> short, how can we all live together?
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> This is first in a series of town meetings made possible by a generous
> grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
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> THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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> TOWN MEETING: FAIR USE OF DIGITAL IMAGES
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> FEBRUARY 16, 1997, 9:30-4:30
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> GREAT HALL AT COOPER UNION
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> MORNING SESSION 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
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> WELCOMING REMARKS:
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> Susan Ball, Executive Director, College Art Association
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> INTRODUCTION TO THE ISSUES:
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> Pat Williams and David Green, Moderators
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> LEGAL INTRODUCTION TO COPYRIGHT:
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> Speaker TBA
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> PRESENTATION OF PREDICAMENTS:
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> Leila Kinney, Art Historian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> Lyndel King, Director, Weisman Art Museum
> Nancy Macko, Artist, Scripps College
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> OUTLINE OF PROPOSED CONFU GUIDELINES FOR FAIR USE OF DIGITAL IMAGES:
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> Cameron Kichin, American Association of Museums
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> LUNCH - 12:30-1:30 p.m. (on your own)
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> AFTERNOON SESSION 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.
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> EXPLORING THE ISSUES:
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> Susan Ball and Pat Williams, Moderators
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> GENERAL ISSUES/TOPICS
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> Copyright Education - Kenneth Crews, Indiana University
> Liability - Adam Eisgrau, American Library Association,
> Digital Futures Coalition
> Artists' Rights - Ted Feder, Artists Rights Society
> Copy Photography - Macie Hall, Johns Hopkins University
> Site Licensing - Geoffrey Samuels, MLC Development
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> PRACTICAL USE OF WEB SITES
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> Annette Weintraub, Artist, City University of New York
> Elizabeth Schmidt, Colonial Williamsburg
> Kathy Cohen, Art Historian, San Jose State University
Received on Sun Feb 09 1997 - 04:14:29 GMT